Happy Birthday Jared!

Today Jared turned 29! We went to Boston yesterday and today we had a little get together with his co-residents. We had fun and yes I have pictures, but I am tired, so you will have to wait. I just wanted to say Happy Birthday and that I love my husband very much and appreciates all that he does for our family. Love ya!!!

Carmel Apples

We had lots of fun this past week making treats with all of our apples. Yesterday we made Carmel apples and they were yummy. IF you want to know how we made these and all of our other yummy treats checkout Mommy Creations.

Master Sorensen

I (Jessica) now officially have a masters degree. But wait you read about my graduation last year.Well that is true I walked in graduation last year. I was completely finished except for finishing my research project up and turning in my paper. I had already presented about my research project was expected to be done with it by the end of last summer so I walked in graduation. Well since research and life doesn't always go as planned that didn't quite happen. My research didn't turn out hw I planned and with the struggles of being a new mom I didn't finish my project until the end of the year. I then turn in my paper in February and for the next 6 months went back and forth making changes. Since my research didn't quite turn out right it made writing the paper more difficult. Well all in all the paper finally got approved and I got my grade. I had forgot all about it and went on with my life until last week when this showed up in the mail.
My diploma. So now I am officially Master Sorensen. Not that I use this degree at all since I am a picture taking stay at home mom. Having gone through this program makes me a more paranoid mother. I learned about all sorts of ways that people die so my thought are very morbid sometimes. If my baby sleeps to long I have to make sure she is still breathing, if she is standing by a window I imagine her falling out. If I am around people taking about guns or at a shooting range in my head I am seeing exactly what the bullet would do if it hit someone. Driving down the road I see us in a car accident in my head and wonder who will take my baby if she survives and I don't. It gets worse sometimes, but I will spare you all the gory details. So see a morbid paranoid mind. I guess on the bright side it makes me more aware of safety hazards and I had fun going to school and people think it is cool that I am "like those people on CSI".
So what does a girl get when she gets her masters degree do you ask? Well this girl got a carpet cleaner and is very happy about it. I have been wanting one of these especially since we don't have a dog door anymore and if I forget to take Tito out he goes to the bathroom in front of Addi's closet or in the corner of the dining room and since our dining room is carpeted and I have an 18 month old that throws her food on the ground when she doesn't want it anymore. Now I can clean my carpet anytime I want and I don't have to live with the stains until we rent a carpet cleaner about once a year.
So I am Jessica Lynn Sorensen M.F.S who stays home with her beautiful little girl taking pictures and cleaning her carpets and I couldn't be happier.

Bushy Hill Apple Orchard

On Saturday we took another family adventure to Bushy Hill Orchard. I picked this particular apple orchard because they have dwarf trees so they would be small enough for Addi to reach the apples.
Addi always enjoys her adventures with her daddy.
I couldn't sleep the night before so I got up and made Addi this dress to wear out of some cute material I found in the remnants bin. Remember last years dress and trip to the apple orchard?
So maybe I made the dress a bit short, but I think she looked awfully cute in it.
We got to ride a tractor out to the orchard to pick the apples.
We had fun picking the apples
but I think Addi enjoyed eating them more


Addi did pretty good considering she only has 6 teeth, or maybe daddy helped her out a little.

We also got to pick raspberries. YUM!
Addi didn't like the raspberries as much as the apples but she had fun picking them and then smashing them.

We came home with 10 lbs of apples and 2 pints of raspberries and have been making fun treats ever since including apple crisp, apples and peanut butter, and apple raspberry, mango crumble. And later this weekend there will be carmel apples and chocolate raspberry cupcakes.

18 months

Today is Addi's half birthday she is now 18 months old. She is getting bigger, smarter, and cuter everyday. She has multiple new words everyday. Some of her latest are purple, yellow, blue, circle, and pizza. Last weekend we had a mini birthday party because I wanted to test my cake making skills (which aren't that good). Today was Addi's first official day in nursery (she has been going for 2 months with me). I had to leave nursery for about 15 min to do some stuff for my other calling (enrichment leader) so I was interested to see how Addi would do in nursery without me. She saw me leaving and waved and said bye bye mommy. Apparently she doesn't care if I am in there or not she would do just fine if I had to leave her there every Sunday. It is probably a good thing I am in there, because today Addi got a little beat up on. I don't think the other kids realize that Addi is smaller and younger than her and today I looked over to where I heard Addi crying and there were 3 other kids pulling at her in different directions and whipping her arms. Addi didn't know what was going on, but momma rescued her. Here are a few pictures from last weeked and her 18 month photoshoot. I am lucky to get any good pictures with her anymore. She is so use to the camera she totally ignores me and I have many pictures of her walking away from me.

Cute little pooh bear bumblebee

I took theses pictures to use to promote my photograph business in October and thought they were so cute that I would share with all of you. I borrowed this outfit from a friend and Addi loved it and didn't want to take it off. I am in the middle of making her a funky little Halloween outfit, but I am afraid she will like pooh bear better.

Found it!

I found the missing sd card for my camera, and in case you were all wondering a sd card can go through the wash and still work. That is right I found it in the washing machine when I was switching the was. How it got from my computer to the wash I don't know but all 144 pictures from our trip to the zoo are safe. That is right we have 144 pictures from the zoo don't worry I will not post them all. Mostly we have so many because Jared is trigger happy and takes 10 pictures of the same thing just in case.
The zoo has a bunch of peacocks that just roam free throughout the zoo so it wasn't unusual to be looking for the porcupine and have a peacock pop up.
But there weren't any cuter peacocks than these two.
Addi wanted to play with the animals especially this wolf who she thought was a puppy.
We got to pet an angora bunny. It was so soft.
And the sheep. Addi was a little hesitant to touched the sheep until mommy pet it.
Addi loved to watch the pigs and they weren't even doing anything.
Now how cute is that ground hog.
Addi was very impressed with all the water. Anytime there was water in the exhibit she would get all excited and point to the water not even noticing the animal.
Kitties say rarr.
"Why are you making me do this mommy" by the end Addi was very tired and ready to go.
I was very excited to get to go to Super Duper Weenie. I saw it on the food network a few weeks ago and when I found out it wasn't to far from us I knew we had to go.
I told Addi to smile and this is what I got.